This blog is based in Northeast Ohio, what was "La Nation du Chat," the Cat Nation, as the French-Canadian furtraders called the Land of the Erie Indians. The blog will touch on many issues: nature, the environment, literature, poetry, society, and politics. Around here we think of the Lake Erie shoreline as the North Coast of the United States--a Frontier in the midst of the Rust Belt.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Floating Down the Marias River in Montana--Carolan's Memorial Day

My daughter Carolan, who lives and works in northwest Montana, is floating down the Marias River today in an inflatable canoe with some friends, Jeremy, Sara, and Brian. This is truly a wilderness experience. In places they are probably 50 miles from a grocery store. In fact, where they are floating there isn't even a bridge crossing this river for some 70 miles. I found a youtube video of a couple paddling the Marias. I'm pretty sure this is what Carolan, Jeremy, Sarah, and Brian are seeing right now.